Tag Archives: Latin America

Scenes from “El Guachimán” [2011 Peru]

Posted on April 8, 2013 by TR

It is not often that we get to review films like this, but since Gastón Vizcarra’s low-brow comedy “El Guachimán” [The Watchman] isn’t particularly making waves anywhere else, it is perhaps reason enough to find out why. Alejandrino Falopio (Guillermo … Continue reading →

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Identifying one’s Morality through Sin, “Joven y alocada” [2012 Chile]

Posted on March 23, 2013 by TR

Young Chilean director Marialy Riva spars with religion and ingrained attitudes towards sex in her country through the drama “Joven y alocada” [Eng. Title: Young and Wild]. Storyline: Narrated through a precocious teenager’s astonishingly detailed blog entries, we follow the … Continue reading →

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Life, fiction, and blah blah blah… “Bonsái” [2011 Chile]

Posted on February 25, 2013 by Artyhands

Young directors like Cristián Jiménez are proof that cinema is alive and well in Chile, and Latin America in general. “Bonsái” may only be the second feature directed and scripted by Jiménez, but his ambitiousness is already plain to see. … Continue reading →

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The right to live and love even within the jaws of justice – “Leonera” [2008 Argentina]

Posted on February 2, 2013 by TR

The 70’s and 80’s may have spawned and subsequently flogged to death an entire sub-genre of exploitative films called Women-in-prison dramas, but just when we thought there’s nothing more left to ‘explore’, comes Argentinian director Pablo Trapero’s Cannes-nominated drama, “Leonera” … Continue reading →

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Toying with memory and time, Chilean style – “El Lenguaje del Tiempo” [2011 Chile]

Posted on January 9, 2013 by TR

Prior to this, I’d seen only one film by Sebastián Araya Serrano – Azul y Blanco, a football-gang themed romance that didn’t particularly win me over. However, his experimental film “El Lenguaje del Tiempo” [Eng. Title: The Language of Time] … Continue reading →

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